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Today's Tids Issue 4,724

Exploring, to find it again:

 

First it was rudeness, and then selfishness, and slowly inconsideration began shrouding the spirit of a once united people; together through thick and thin. Now it is outright lawlessness. I used to watch news clips of mob violence in areas throughout the world -- Middle East, South America, Europe, across the globe and always thought, I’m glad I live in a civilized country where we can find solutions before fighting; because opposite sides always knew that what was good for all was finding agreement in contradictions. I used to feel that way.

 

I used to think poetry was too austere and often too complex for my simple mind to understand. But I have earned to see poetry as communications from the heart. That maybe a national poet laureate isn’t such bad idea after all. Maybe we need more lyrics that have people dancing again.

 

Certainly, not more bad puns like: A dung beetle walks into a bar and says, “Is this stool taken?”

 

Maybe not CNN, but there is a chorus of praise last night for the words of good old plain Mike Pence.

 

The Question:

For what is Tuesday Weld known? How is that for a question nobody saw coming?

 

The Headlines:

--Laura As Fiercest Of Storms Moves In To Batter Louisiana; Storm Surge And 150mph Sustained Wind Expected to Cause Calamitous Damage.

--New Unemployment Claims Expected To Be About One Million; Markets Once Again Mixed And Meandering; Warnings Of Market Decline Increase.

--As Trump Steps To Podium Tonight To Accept Nomination, The Anticipated Speech Of Fed Chairman Powell Maybe The Most Important Of The Day; Powell May Suggest Loosening The Strings On Inflation, i.e. Being Ready To Raise Interest Rates.

--Pence Accepts VP Nomination.

--NBA’s Clippers And Lakers Cancel Rest Of Season To Protest Police Shooting; New Evidence Belies Original Claims Against Kenosha Police.

 

In case you haven’t noticed, the golf industry is booming. Is there a better social distancing activity on the planet right now? Hitting ball into the woods is today the ultimate safety first shot. So now I say, that wasn’t a bad shot, it was a sincere attempt to be considerate, protecting my foursome. Dick’s Sporting Goods sales are up 27%, mostly on my replacement gold balls. See, they naked the store after me!

 

When in the past did people come into a restaurant and start yelling at average diners tying to enjoy a meal? Just because they maybe in the wrong pollical party or ideology?

 

Meanwhile Covid 19 is still here, and intrinsic life has changed considerably. As hard as it may be to believe, we probably haven’t felt the full effects of people staying at home not working yet. But we’re trying. We’re giving it the old college try.

Is “Giving it the old college try” still politically correct?

 

You think you are alone in this world and nobody really knows you until you sit at an outside sidewalk restaurant table and people you rarely see pass by, smile, wave and say nice evening, isn’t it?

 

Yes, it is hard to be invisible these days.

 

The rotation of the earth really makes my day.

 

Early overreactions to events are one of modern society’s major defects.

 

The Answer:

Tuesday Weld was a more serious actress than some might remember, She won an A Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”, and an Emmy for “The Winter of Our Discontent”. She won a Bafta For “Once upon a time in America”. But she may have been best known as fresh new happy face, with a lively personality that lit up TV screens. Tuesday Weld was Brightness.

 

Basically, what I seem to be saying is that we were probably more civilized before the Internet.

 

Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.